UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1272

Details

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GPU process implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the continued availability of a GPUChannelHost data structure during Blink shutdown, related to content/browser/gpu/browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc and content/renderer/render_thread_impl.cc.

Affected Packages

chromium-browser

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1095

oxide-qt

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

1.8.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

References

REPORT

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html

REPORT

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1272

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2677-1

REPORT

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1272